At Saint-Laurent Church, visitors’ wishes are transformed into a sound installation for Nuit Blanche 2026.

What if a wish shared over the phone could somehow travel across the sky? For Nuit Blanche 2026, artist and researcher Marie-Luce Nadal presents Sous la peau du ciel, an immersive and participatory sound installation free to experience at Église Saint-Laurent in Paris’ 10th arrondissement, from Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 7, 2026. Curious visitors can discover the work on Saturday from 12:00 to 2:00, in a covered venue accessible to people with reduced mobility.

The project rests on a concept that's simple to grasp, yet unusually distinctive: anonymous voices from around the world share wishes, prayers, or more intimate thoughts. These voices were gathered beforehand via a listening platform, then transformed into a sonic material that blends with flashes of lightning, mapped in real time across the globe. During the evening, a an open line hosted by Dorothée Barba will also allow people to participate directly in the work, from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., by calling 01 59 58 00 99.

Born in 1984 in Perpignan, Marie-Luce Nadal lives and works in Paris. Her practice sits at the crossroads of art, science and fiction, with a particular focus on atmospheric phenomena—clouds, lightning, and the winds. With Sous la peau du ciel, she aims to make perceptible what often remains unseen: a voice, a restraint, a desire, a presence. In the Église Saint-Laurent, this listening takes on a special dimension, blending the space of the venue, the resonance of sounds, and the thoughts entrusted by strangers.

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In this spirit, the installation naturally aligns with Nuit Blanche, a free cultural event that each year invites audiences to rediscover Paris in a different way, featuring installations, performances and artistic routes showcased in museums, in public spaces, or in places that are sometimes quite unexpected. For its 2026 edition, the event is led by Barbara Butch, with a program focused on love and social connection. Around 300 artistic projects are on offer across the capital and the Metropolis of Greater Paris.

At Saint-Laurent Church, Under the Skin of the Sky invites a more introspective pause in the night’s itinerary. You enter to listen, perhaps to leave a mark, or simply to slow down and linger in a neighborhood that’s too often sped through. Between human voices and the motions of the heavens, the piece poses a subtle question: what happens to a wish when it’s shared with strangers?

• MARIE-LUCE NADAL / Beneath the Skin of the Sky
  From Saturday, June 6, 2026 to Sunday, June 7, 2026: Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
  

  Under the Skin of the Sky, Immersive and Participatory Sound Installation, 2026
  Under the Skin of the Sky is an invisible membrane stretched between human hearts and the atmosphere, an installation built as a sensitive surface where anonymous voices from around the world lay down their wishes, their desires, their most intimate prayers. These voices do not stay intact. Collected via a listening platform ahead of the event, they now cross the sky, transform, mingle with the bolts of lightning, and are mapped in real time across the globe. A living, shifting sonic material emerges, made of scattered intimacies and celestial energies. The work breathes like a skin: it captures, transmits, vibrates. It makes audible what normally lies buried—a tactile map of human desires on a planetary scale. Presented for the first time, Under the Skin of the Sky offers an experience that is both collective and intimate. In this listening, everyone becomes a wave among others, a presence dissolved in an invisible choir, an attempt to sew the world back together through sound, between the inside and the outside, between earth and sky.
  On Nuit Blanche evening, at the heart of the installation, a free antenna will be held all night by Dorothée Barba. You will be able to share your greatest wishes by calling 01 59 58 00 99. Free antenna from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
  Marie-Luce Nadal (born 1984 in Perpignan, based in Paris) is an artist and researcher. Her work investigates atmospheric phenomena—clouds, lightning, winds—approaching them as materials to cultivate, capture, or translate. At the crossroads of art, science, and fiction, she designs sensitive devices that connect bodies to the sky’s dynamics. Her works take the form of installations, machines, or narratives, where the invisible becomes perceptible.
  Technical architecture and development: Adrien Revel
  Soundscape: Arthur Doué (composer), Alexander Maxwell (sound engineer)
  Audio processing and spatialization: Raphaël Revault, Matteo Bonasse
  Production partners: AKER, Manifestation Station, Racine du Ciel
  Technical partners: Holophonix, Twilio, blitzortung.org
  With support from: DiCRéAM, Fulcrum Arts
  Acknowledgments: Dr Nadia Guerouaou, Paroisse Saint-Laurent Paris 10e, Dorothée Barba, Marie Vasconi and the Conservatoire Charles Munch.
  https://skinofthesky.cloud/
  📞 To participate in the work, simply call 01 59 58 00 99 and let yourself be guided to submit your wish, whatever it may be!
  

  
  
  

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